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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to the plan from my kid's ES now.
K-3rd kids who return will have direct instruction by teachers in the classroom; classrooms are being re-assigned to accommodate this.
4th and 5th grade are doing "support to virtual"; teachers will teach from home and paraeducators/other staff will monitor the classes.
Specials are all virtual.
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What School?

I just sat through Somerset Elementary's plan and it was a confusing mess.  Kids are probably zooming, maybe with headphones, most likely with their teacher, but not certain...recess hasn't been thought out yet (something about cones and using equipment, but "thats crazy")...its like the push to reopen from both the new Presidential Administration and the MD Governor caught everyone off guard and everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do...[/quote]

This is really unacceptable, because based on the county's own metrics, in-person school could start as soon as next week.

Bottom line: [b] Schools with strong principals will have in-person instruction [/b] for kids are in schools in-person. Other schools will have support to virtual.[/quote]
They must be extremely strong principals, to singlehandedly build the extra classrooms and drag all the new teachers off the streets and into the school to make that direct in-person instruction happen!

The fact is, every school has to go the best they can with the circumstances they’re given. [/quote]

I agree with you. My issue is that they seem to not have spent the last 11 months planning for what happens when the schools reopen. And I'm not talking about the teachers.  I'm talking about the school leadership.  I'm the poster about Somerset Elementary, where 70% of parents opted for "in-person" learning and the principle was reading slides she hadn't read before.  Caught herself surprised at the words she was saying outside to an audience of 170+ people.  There was no real plan outside of "kids will come to school by 845.  9-1130 is zoom learning, 1130 - 1 is lunch and wellness, some possible one on one in person, but we haven thought that out yet.  Lunch in the classroom.  We don't know what recess will look like yet.  1 - 3 is zoom school.  This isn't want you would like to hear, but is what we can do."  What have you been planning for the last 11 months??  The classroom cap is 12-15 students. More than that have to go to an overflow room, with a para-educator (a new term for me) to monitor the classroom.  If you in an flow room, they will try to make sure its only one grade.  If you are in an overflow room, its only for a week.  They will try to put you one week in overflow and one week with your teacher, but zooming.

What a mess. [/quote]

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